Republicans' chaotic audit of Arizona ballots for Trump may blow up in their faces: GOP insider

[turbinetree]

By Tom Boggioni
Published April 25, 2021

With reports coming in about lack of planning and questionable practices as the GOP-led audit of the 2020 presidential votes in Arizona continues this weekend, questions are being raised over the impact the fumbling attempt to find a Donald Trump victory may have on the future of Arizona's Republican Party.

On Saturday, Trump issued multiple press releases about the recount with the ex-president demanding Republican Gov. Doug Ducey call out the National Guard to protect the "patriots" who are doing the audit.

On Sunday morning, the New York Times reported that the audit has been, at best, chaotic with one critic pointing out the organizers are "making it up as they go along."

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-arizona-2652771076/

[Mad_Machine76]

1. Gee. They think it *might* blow up in their faces?

[BlueNProud]

2. Don't ask a question you don't know the answer to.

[kentuck]

3. Trump will have an excuse...

"The "fake news" and far left Democrat Party got to them. They were afraid to check all the signatures. They should have done their job. Everybody knows there was fraud. The election was stolen. I am really disappointed that these people did not do a thorough job.....blah....blah...blah...etc"

[Mad_Machine76]

4. Wasn't there some question

about how they are conducting the audit- that they might be spoiling ballots?

[turbinetree]

10. Here you go....

[Mad_Machine76]

14. Ah. Yes.

Thanks!

[turbinetree]

20. Your welcome....................

[Girard442]

5. So a bunch of raving nutcases hell-bent on finding fraud have physical posession of ballots.

I don't see any problem there.

[Buns_of_Fire]

6. DEMANDING loser, isn't he?

On Saturday, Trump issued multiple press releases about the recount with the ex-president demanding Republican Gov. Doug Ducey call out the National Guard to protect the "patriots" who are doing the audit.

[louis-t]

7. Nah, they only plan to count the votes for donnie dum dum anyway.

What could go wrong?

[TheRealNorth]

8. I don't see how it going to blow up in their faces....

I think its safe to say that they are creating the results they want. They are perfecting their methodology for stealing future elections.

[turbinetree]

12. Yepper spot on................

I just wonder if any of these enabling of a traitor had grandparents that fought in WWII , oh I don't know storming a beach to take down a fascists'.......just a thought......

[moonscape]

17. Totally agree. They don't even have to count, just

say they did. A bad count is the same. Nothing matters except this being used as conspiratorial ‘evidence’ in the future.

[kairos12]

9. Trumpster auditors

caught on the floor with black and blue pens. Not red ones. Let the ballot changing begin.

[Polly Hennessey]

11. Republicans are a hot mess snd will be

as long as tRump is in the mix. The Repugs may never recover from the tRump era.

[Midnight Writer]

13. So I reckon if they have different results, they can dump Senator Kelly and restore Trump's votes.

Plus clean up any local elections that didn't go GQP.

And if the people of Arizona don't like that, they can vote the Republicans out. Except the Republicans can convene this same team, mount a recount, and overturn that election, too.

Is that honestly their plan?

[SheilaAnn]

18. What is their reaction to "The election has been certified"?. I mean that has to roil them some,

right? Of course facts have never really affected them one way or the other..LOL.

[Happy Hoosier]

19. As I understand it, they cannot nullify election results.

This is strictly a propaganda operation

[Takket]

15. i find it completely disgusting...

that the AZ Senate can just hand over ballots to some crackpot organization with no plan or experience from another state... and this is even REMOTELY LEGAL.

[Mad_Machine76]

21. It shouldn't be IMHO

[Progressive Jones]

16. Is there any legal basis for this audit? Will the results actually matter, as it's been certified?nt

[Crowman2009]

22. A lot of these so-called auditors are using black and blue ink pens.

Which is a big no-no for election auditing since red ones are only allowed. Something tells me a bunch of those folks are going to prison for ballot tampering.

[Captain Zero]

23. The ballots should have been destroyed after the election was certified.

I remember in Florida in 2000, the ballots were destroyed fairly quickly after the election was certified and remember learning that was the case everywhere. So how long do we keep ballots so that these whiners and moaners can use their fake auditing firm and can pull this kind of shit?